When you realize that Nolan is the kindest viltrumite around.

"Scalp her Mark!" Goddamned invincible got Angela violent over here lol

22:27 notice how all the Viltrumites refer to Nolan as "The Great Nolan". Might hint towards that he's special

Been suggested your videos and noticed you're one of the few reactors that are actually cognizant of the emotional contentions in content like this and very keen on the nuances. Absolutely great reactions and analysis

Keep in mind, Nolan is one of the more powerful Viltrumites, like an elite Viltrumite. That’s why the others know of him, and why he can karate chop that ones guys guts out.

15:43 I absolutely love this title card sequence, lol. I was sitting there like "Wait, that makes no sense... 'You gotta be invincible?'", then they cut back and he just finishes his actual sentence,. That was a great twist on the usual gimmick. Your giggle at it was *chef's kiss*, haha.

In the comics, Nolan was given a 500-year timespan to bring Earth into the empire. If humans hadn't bred so true with Viltrumites, he would've been able to work his way towards that over multiple generations, maybe even gotten himself legitimately elevated to the head of state for a one-world government and brought Earth into the Empire after hundreds of years of laying the groundwork of trust and bringing his children around to Viltrumite indoctrination. That 'What will you have after 500 years' question wasn't just Nolan picking an arbitrary number. Mark having full Viltrumite power changed that. It meant that Earth's integration into the Empire had to be expedited because the Viltrumite species needs the breeding stock to avoid extinction. They're right on the cusp of it. Numbers are dwindling. Similarly, in the comics, Kregg gave Mark an expedited 100-year timespan to bring Earth in, with regular check-ins on his progress. I feel like the show shortening that to 'get it done SOON' is actually an improvement in the storytelling, because you get the sense that Mark is on a much tighter clock.

When General Kregg said to Mark that they'd check on his progress on Earth "soon," what is "soon" for a race that lives for millennia? It might not be "weeks," it could be years or decades.

One of the moments I love in Nolan's sequence is the way the lyrics line up with his halted suicide attempt and decision to save the Thraxan ship. At his lowest point, as his world and life were completely his own, the lyrics tell us "Your laws do not compel me now", and his immediate action as soon as he realizes that the Viltrumite Ideology of Might Makes Right is fundamentally flawed is to HELP THE HELPLESS. Then 'you who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind' as he's making decisions about his future, and what kind of person he wants to be as an independent viltrumite. This is a person who pretended so hard at heroism that when he tried to take off the mask, he realized that it had become his face. When deconstructed to his very bones, who he became as Omni-Man proved MORE TRUE than who he had been as Nolan of Viltrum.

So, as I mentioned in another video's comment section, I think the reason Eve is so devastated at the end of this episode is because that couple in the car (who probably didn't make it) didn't need to be collateral damage. That happened because Eve didn't finish the fight with Killcannon as soon as she could have, but rather spent precious time taunting him. It was her ego that caused that car to go over the bridge. Just as it was her ego (in trying to be seen as the savior, by creating that neighborhood park from the abandoned lot) which ultimately led to that collapse (which of course could've been much worse, with loss of human life).

I mean look at it from Nolan's point of view if you have empathy. He is struggling with his whole worldview. "How is this better?" 1st) Viltrumites are essentially as close to demigods in their universe. They live for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, have amazing physical physics defying abilities and superior tech. They then decide to explore space and find out that every single species they come across is short lived, weak and essentially living in the middle ages compared to the Viltrumites. Of course you would develope a superiority complex of epic proportions. But wait... 2nd) The culture he was born, indoctrinated and raised in is a culture that very recently decided to kill off all the weak of there society. Weak in all metrics, meaning if you had empathy or compassion for anything lesser than a Viltrumite you needed to go. So Nolan has never cared about anything but his mission he belived so deeply in because why would he not? This man was having a breakdown experiencing emotions he never knew he had. Because.. 3rd) Nolan has lived for thousands of years by this point. I would probably guess like 2-4k but if it is any higher it proves the point even more. He was only on Earth for 20 years. 20 years compared to 2 thousands is quite small. Which is why I think most people take offensewhen he called Debbie a pet. I bet most see the pet comment as a dominant/submissive thing but I truly believe he meant it in terms of lifespans. There are people that truly love their pets like they are blood relatives but however when that pet dies, they will get another so they can have something to love and keep them company. They still love their pets with all their being. Love and emotions are new to Nolan. Debbie really got through to him on an emotional level, and it has only been 20 years, which is like a 3 day weekend compared to us.

I'm like you, I like the Maulers. And I'm glad that the clone killed the scarred original - one of the best parts of them is the interaction with both of them assuming they're the original and the other is the clone. Also, Rex Splode has kinda grown on me. He's an obnoxious asshole, but he's self-aware about it, and he's an asshole in an entertaining way.

I’ve seen several people give this theory on why Nolan didn’t just try to conquer Earth immediately, but I wanted to reiterate it here. Nolan it seems like genuinely liked his life on Earth, I mean he wrote books and published them for the enjoyment of humans. He had a child. Something not many talk about is that Nolan kills the Guardians and starts his operation to destabilize it right after Mark gets his power. The theory pretty much states that he grew so attached to his family that he hoped Mark wouldn’t get any powers, therefore Nolan could just wait until Mark and Debbie died of natural causes to conquer Earth. I really like this theory, as Nolan’s reaction to Mark getting his powers is super serious for some strange reason.

Can’t imagine why you’re so surprised to see Nolan with a new wife and son. He did tell Mark last season, “I can always start again! Make another kid.” 😅

I was looking forward to your reaction to this episode! They did a good job mirroring the feelings between Nolan by the black hole and Debbie by the bridge.

This episode was a bloody masterpiece. Viltrumite on Viltrumite violence is exquisitely glorious. Not to mention the fact that Nolan single-handedly slaughtered all but two members of a Viltrumite strike team before casually saving Mark.

Space Azula got moves with that hair knife.

General Kregg is voiced by the same dude who did Long Feng in Avatar. He also did someone in legend of Korra. Art is voiced by Mark Hamill who did luke in star wars and ozai in avatar. Not to mention J.K. Simmons. What a good cast.

Mark learns a very helpful lesson. If you don't kill a Viltrumite in a fight, you lose.

I like to think that mauler s brain injuries after surviving the explosion in the first episode were so serious that part of his memory was completely lost. If that s the case, then it would justify him treating his clone like he was NUMBER 2 and renaming himself KING MAULER. He clearly couldnt remember that knowing who s the clone doesn't end well

This episode was great and when Nolan killed that female viltrumite I was like finally someone shut Azula up lol

There something so perfect about the way JK Simmons says "I know" when Lucan says Omni-Man deserves death. Either it means he knows he deserves death because he can't shake/is so torn about his Viltrumite heritage and upbringing and how he has failed his mission by not abandoning his post and fathering a child with what Viltumites would consider an "unworthy" species. Or because he is subconsciously just as torn about what he did to Mark and Debbie and that he feels guilty about what he did on Earth, as well as what he caused on this planet. Which is supported by his outburst at Mark about how he shouldn't feel the way he should. Or more accurately, it's probably both. Either way, there is such an honest and matter of fact way about that line delivery and line itself that's perfect.

"Maybe Allen will come to the rescue..." Last time we saw Allen, these three evicersted him.

Mark truly has a punchable face for most other characters🤣 before he even could get his sentence out, it was 👊

I Loved how Luken broke Nolan's Spine it was there in the Invincible Comic in the same way it was one of the most epic Panels

It was a good episode that encapsulated Nolan's struggle with his "awakened feelings". At the end, Nolan tells Mark not to forget the good he had done and to read his books. Did you happen to catch the book titles as Debbie was boxing them up?

I really like how Nolan started changing with the Thraxans and not Humans. Earth started Nolan's change, but it wasnt until the Thraxans that he realized how deep a hole he dug. Earth wasnt the exception to his viewpoint, but Thraxa was.

That was an incredibly good guess about his books

The thing about Nolan is that even though he was indoctrinated as a brutal Viltrumite soldier, he really does not totally agree with their way of doing things. He wants people to accept and love him, thereby obtaining power and leadership through more pro-social means rather than conquest through violence. He seems to be at war with himself more so than anyone around him and fears losing those that care about him to the brutality of the other Viltrumites. When balked, he tends to fall back on the internalized beat it to death mode of the Viltrumites, but seems to wish he was not that way. The fact that he saved the damaged Thraxan ship just as he was about to self-delete via black hole, then was ready to simply fly away without expecting anything in return was an altruistic gesture... showing deep down that he really wants to be seen as a hero and good guy. That the Thraxans praised and accepted him, asking him to stay and become their leader meant more to him than he lets on. His time on Earth with Debbie helped him draw that side of himself out and changed him fundamentally when he realized that there were people that valued that side of his personality. The fact that he lives so long creates another rift among those that he cares about since the pain of their deaths has to be put in perspective and he has to move on to other relationships. He truly is a tragic character, not to be pitied, forgiven, nor to have excuses made for, but just to try to understand from an alien perspective.

waiting for your reactions just as i wait for the actual episodes

u r one of the best reactors. great content

Nolan on that freaky deeky stuff... from hot earth women to bug alien tongue lashers.

Great reaction! I think Nolan's perspective is so fascinating. I could write an entire paper about it, I think. lol I can't wait for the rest of the episodes to drop. I'm still holding out hope that Allen is okay!

Great reaction! Thanks for sharing!

You are such an incredibly and wonderfully emotive person, I'm almost envious hahah

This might be the most unimportant detail but the red and green Tetris block in the corner are both the same and I can’t unsee it

the next 4 episodes of season 2 will be released on January 4th i had to do a lot of shady stuff to get this information but i hope you will not think it will take another 6 or 8 months for the 2nd half of season 2

youre my favorite reactioner 😄😍 i was hoping this one

The Duplicate/Immortal thing is weird in several ways. Not only just the age gaap, he works above her. There is a clear imbalance between them.

in the comic, instead of soon, he says we'll check on Earth in 100 years, so most of the humans he is currently attatched to would pass of age by then, but that probably lighted the pace for the show, but it shows how long Nolan's original mission could have lasted. They didn't really want the Purge, it's more like the winners' rewriting the history of a Civil War, but since the Purge they use a small recon to scope out things like the Guardians and Cecil first.

I love your reactions i watched the entirety of the last airbender again this time was with you lol.

Sometimes you find someone truly cool when you binge these reactions

22:50 That car going off was not Eve's fault imo. A bridge shouldn't crumble like that from that much impact. Lol.

This show is weirdly beautiful, heartbreaking.

The music in this show is so amazing.

Amazing show, can't believe Nolan was going to black hole his own ass for what he did. Voice talent on display is wonderful, well done Amazon for splashing the cash. As usual, love your vids, more Angela on my screen. X

Hearts out for Russ.

17:00 the reason the clone is inferior lies in the reason there needs to be a clone to begin with

"Who's Craig?" had me dying

Mark's got a baby cricket brother 😁

Art's words to Debbie were beautiful.

Both Nolan and Debbie (Sarah Oh is way too good of a crier...) contemplated suicide here, though Nolan was actually about to let it happen by the looks of it. Though, Avalanche by Nick Cave with its sad piano tunes was a great song choice for Nolan's part. I love his struggles though. Obviously it doesn't justify or excuse what he did, ever. But even then a redemption in that he changes sides would still be preferable for everyone involved. And for us viewers I it gives us a good multi-layered character with some depth. His other kind are basically just imperialistic space Nazis. I think the couple in the car was supposed to look similar to her parents to draw that parallel of Eve's actions having consequences. Which is also why we see her visiting them at the end. As for Mark's half brother (who will choose his own name), I think he will likely age up quickly but then still live for a long time. Maybe not as long as Viltrumites but much much longer than humans. If it is true that Viltrumites can live up to 100.000 years then I would still expect many thousands of years here. I'm more vurious how long it will take for him to age up to a relevant fighting age. Unless that disemboweled guy followed them deeper into the cave and murdered them off camera before going back to Nolan and Mark. I highly recommend for you to react to Silo, which is a bit of an underdog at the moment because it is on Apple's streaming service, and Attack on Titan (subtitled), which just finished its last episode. Don't look up anything, and I really mean anything, from the latter though. This show is absurdly spoilery.

My dad recently disowned me and got a new family. I know the feeling

Love watching your reaction videos. Im trying to get my friends to watch Invincible.

Awsome reaction

Most folk have such a shory memory. Look, he is sad, oww, touching moment. Thousonds of people he killed? All forgotten.

Loved ur reaction. Just subscribed notifications bell on!!!

"Only I wear these glasses."

That’s a good question though, what was Nolan thinking if he knew what having a child with an ant will cause?

General Kregg is voiced by Long Feng from Avatar! What a chocolatey voice he has

Art is played by Mark Hamill 🤗

15:44 Best intro ever.

Omni Man's all bout the Bug's Life now

Dont know if you knew it, but Art Rosenbaums voice actor is actually MARK HAMILL!

Nolan getting to be married to both Sandra oh and Rhea Seehorn? Lucky bastard

I thought Donald was stolen from another timeline since the original Donald died in the timeline we follow. But I suppose he's a robot now.

I read the comics and I refuse to spoil. I will however non spoiler talk about a behind the scenes sort of thing. The guy drawing the comic originally never had plans to write up a story where Omni-Man cheated on Debbie, but one of the guys was messing around and drew the picture of him making out with a bug. It got so much laughter out of the writer that he said to hang onto the drawing, they were going to use it in the comic somehow. He didn’t know how, but they would. Anyhow you’ve seen what you’ve seen so you know how it goes so far. They worked it in.

Seeing debbie walk the streets barefoot i so wanna punch Green Ghost’s Husband, i get it Omniman put your wife on a T-Shirt but debbie NEVER KNEW WTF was happening or with Nolan…. Seeing Debbie cry, imo one of the strongest women ive seen from a comic book narrative as a mortal makes me mad :(

Nolan, having not taken a breath in almost a year, is sitting in front of a black hole letting himself be pulled in. Then he saves the spaceship falling into a black hole. Meanwhile Homelander can't lift a plane to safety. Homelander is a haunting villian, but doesn't hold a candle to Nolan.

13:45 "Be prepared" - Scar 😅 15:40 "You have a purple brother" Lmaoo

When *Nolan* was telling *Mark* about his history, I got the impression Earth was his first assignment. So, perhaps no billions dead on previous worlds. . .from *Nolan* at least. 🤔 *EDIT:* It was my understanding that *Nolan* (and all _Viltrumites,_ actually) was to weaken Earth, so it could be conquered down the road.

Came to find this channel thanks to your Invincible reactions and am thoroughly enjoying your pre and post reaction analyses. Curious though: would you be interested in reacting to Band of Brothers? Genuinely one of my favorite series of all time, and as I heard Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are making another show in the same vain, then it might not be such a bad idea.

Now I’m wondering if viltrumite/human hybrids are in fact stronger then a full blood because when mark was actually trying in his flight he was kicking her ass and she had gray hair meaning she hundred of years of fighting experience and she only won because she was more ruthless

“Is there something important in those books?” Me: 😊

I think couple in the car were meant to look like her parents, nice touch by the creators and awesome reaction as usual :)

I feel like the hair blade thing is a distraction more than anything else. A viltrumite should eaaily tank the cuts unless by direct stabbing

Sequids can't possess viltrumites. Remember Mark resisted them on Mars.

30:25 He's Lex Luthor.

@funnylilgalreacts I know the explanation Andressa (Nolan's bug wife) gave to Mark about her species/people life span being very short lived compared to humans and it's assumed Mark's brother life will be cut short but remember he has Nolan's genes as well which are far more dominant. Remember what Nolan told Mark from the previous season about his heritage even though he's technically half-human he's at the same time almost a full-blooded Viltrumite because Nolan's lineage is pure. I would say read the comics but that would be way to spoilery and counterproductive for this series especially going forward for what's to come.

the ethical dilemma Mark was put in at episodes end , either untake over or we will , is a interesting situation.

They are rumors (leak ? Don't know 😅) that the break is just for December and season 2 will return January 4.

Btw. I do love your reactions cuz they’re so close to how I reacted. I was 14 in 2004. And my band teacher made sure we kept up in the series lol. Btw. And m technically from Geminon OR Canceron, based on the year. There’s a test for ya hehe

That genetics supercedes oliver err, All Other genetics.

I don't think it's thelia that's the mole because the viltramites learned about Nolan before thelia did. The only people that knew were on the council for the coalition of planets and, after the ending, pretty clearly leads to thaddeus

Sequids were unable to take over Mark in season one and are therefore unable to take over Viltrimites

I read all of 144 comic book😁😅

"Just rip that hair right out of her head." Oh snap, asking for a Toolok Pull this early in the show? Dang!

anything would include cashing out that golden apple

In all fairness, I liked the "to be..." joke.

He’s not the only one…it’s other Marks that didn’t join they dad

you found the voice for Thadeus, do you know who's voicing Art?

I'm not sure if you know this or not. Art is voiced by Mark Hamill good ol Luke Skywalker.

"SCALP HER MARK JUST RIP THAT HAIR RIGHT OUT OF HER HEAD >:(" Best part

Omni-man really had a baby Thanos wtf where's Cosmic Ghost Rider 😂

One thing i do wanna say, viltrumites get seriouslyy effed up in this series, like the guts, the mouth and the head squish are seriously nothing to what we will probably see..

I don't think *any* of those Viltrumites are dead. We've seen what Mark and Nolan can recover from in S1 - they can beat the absolute hell out of each other, but give them time, and they'll completely recover. So anyway, Viltrumite combat is legitimately terrifying. And we're only halfway through the season. Just what kind of insanity is coming after this?!

If you feel that way about Immortal and Kate How about this Andressa was the little girl on the ship Nolan save. She is maybe 6-7 months out of a 9 month life span

i am enjoying your invincible videos miss and you're reaction🌹

Kirkman has a habit of demonizing or oversimplifying his black characters to make them hateable (something he also did in the comics disappointingly enough) but Theo was right.. from his POV.. look at how most people on social media act when a celeb or whoever is revealed to be a grapey POS suddenly everyone expects every guy who ever took a pic with them to just KNOW Weinstein or **insert metoo merchant here** was a monster..so it's reasonable for someone to be in disbelief that the wife and mother of this man's kids didn't know SOMETHING.. &as much as Nolan fooled EVERYBODY.. I think a part of Debbie's guilt is she DID know something was off deep down.. but she just ignored it because she had the fairytale life doting husband thriving career, &a good kid.. were all "guilty" of not asking toomany questions sometimes &When that has preventable consequences other people have a right to hold us in contempt of at the very least distrust.. cause that is also apart of THEIR healing process.

Lol so many people love to apologize and make excuses for Omni-Man. Its nuts.